[RE-wrenches] Hydro system

[Mac Lewis]

I don't really want to mess with changing the hydro, I'm more interested in
alleviating the manual transfer between power systems.  I'm planning on
putting a power quality recorder/oscilloscope so that I understand what
type of power we are working with.  Its semi-large (from my perspective)
because I believe that they transmit at 11.4 kV and step it back down.
That tells me that the penstock is long (and expensive).  In some ways my
post is premature, but the big question is can you have a largish hydro
feed a load direct without storage (maybe there is a dynamic load bank or
something like that?  I like the idea of feeding batteries direct and
letting the inverters make good quality power but I'm ignorant about hydro
on this scale.

I appreciate the ideas

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 9:11 PM Jerry Shafer <jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is from the web and its metric so dont get messed up. You need big
> GPM and big head (pressure) yes it is multiplied but 1 × anything is still
> 1, 2 x is not much better.
> Do you have any values yet, elevation change,
> Jerry
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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 8:00 PM <toddcory at finestplanet.com> wrote:
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>> isn't there a formula like head in feet X gpm divided by 10 = approximate
>> wattage?
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>> todd
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>> On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:10pm, "Jerry Shafer" <
>> jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com> said:
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>> You need head (pressure) and GPM, clean degree free, no silt, a catch
>> basin to stall the water, big pipe long run, try to keep the rollercoasters
>> out, (rises), and no 90's, that's just to start. Low head waterwheels can
>> produce lots of power to but you need a river of water.
>> Jerry
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Mac Lewis

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